Named in 8 known lawsuits, $606,000 total settlements.
Wilson, Sequan vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 804227/2025E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, February 24, 2025, ended June 3, 2026
$45,000 Settlement
Grandy, Shabazz vs City of Ny
Case # 804550/2024E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, March 19, 2024, ended May 28, 2025
$55,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about July 12, 2023, Plaintiff was grabbed, handcuffed, seized, and arrested in an excessive manner and with excessive force by Detective Claude Mede, Detective Kyle Floor, Detective Konti Markvukaj, Police Officer John Doe. and Police Officer John Roe. All these acts took place absent an arrest warrant, probable cause, reasonable cause or any legal justification. Plaintiff remained incarcerated for over 24 hours. The criminal action against Plaintiff was terminated favorably.
Marrow, Michael vs The City of Ny, et al.
Case # 24CV00114,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 16, 2024, ended September 6, 2024
$37,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 6, 2023, Plaintiff was seized, assaulted, and arrested without a warrant on a false criminal charge of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance by defendants Police Officer Kyle F. Flood, Police Officer Nelson Nin, and John Doe #1 - 6. Plaintiff was placed in handcuffs which caused him pain, physical and emotional distress, hardship, and anxiety. Plaintiff was transported to the 48th precinct where he was strip searched before being transferred to Central Booking where he was imprisoned until the following afternoon. The defendants did not have a warrant or other legal process authorizing the arrest of Plaintiff.
Connor, William vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 812847/2023E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, August 21, 2023, ended April 3, 2024
$30,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On December 1, 2021, William Connor was walking home on Hunts Point Avenue from McDonald's. A man approached him who said he was looking for someone by the name of Carl. Mr. Connor told him he did not know a Carl and continued walking. Still, the man followed him and mentioned Carl. "Do you remember Tiffany, the girl we were hanging out with," said the man. Mr. Connor said he not know a Carl or a Tiffany and continued on his way. After the man asked Mr. Connor where he could get drugs, Mr. Connor went into the corner store on Hunts Point Avenue and Gilbert Place to grab his girlfriend a smoothie. Approximately five minutes latter as Mr. Connor was was leaving the store, two vehicles full of uniformed police off...
Williams, Albert vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 23CV01670,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, March 1, 2023, ended June 14, 2024
$120,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 30, 2020, Plaintiff, a Black man, was cornered in his apartment building by an undercover officer who demanded drugs and did not identify himself as law enforcement. Plaintiff tried to run for safety, but the officer chased him out of the building and tackled him to the ground while eight additional plainclothes officers descended from three different directions. Pressing Plaintiff against the pavement with his hands pinned behind his back, the officers, from the Bronx Narcotics Unit, stomped on him and repeatedly punched and kicked him. Then they dragged him to the back of their van and – while calling him “n*****” and “cockroach” – punched him in the groin until he passed out. The Plaintiff was ha...
Maldonado, Jose vs City of Ny et al.
Case # 817536/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 24, 2023, ended November 19, 2024
$28,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 21, 2019, Plaintiff was at work in a store when a woman asked Plaintiff to provide change for a bill, which Plaintiff obliged. The woman allegedly then sold a controlled substance to an undercover PO. The POs did not observe Plaintiff exchange a controlled substance with the woman or anyone else. Despite this, the POs approached Plaintiff while he was at work and arrested him without legal justification. The POs threw him on the ground, handcuffed him, kicked him, and punched him, causing cuts and bruises all over his body, before transporting him to the precinct and then Central Booking. The POs leveled false accusations against Plaintiff based on fabricated evidence, but the court ultimately dismi...
Dickenson, Ramone, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 817221/2021E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 20, 2021, ended January 24, 2023
$265,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On February 16, 2021, at approximately 4:00 PM, plaintiffs Ramone Dickenson, Jason Tygther, and Rasheem Grant were in vicinity of White Plains Road and East 234th Street in the Bronx. They allege Police Officers Nicholas Vandyke, Kyle Flood, and two unnamed officers approached them without legal justification/probable cause. The lawsuit alleges the officers used excessive force, physical grabbing and assault, and conducted illegal arrests and searches. Ramone Dickenson alleges he was strip-searched without justification, detained for more than a day, and maliciously prosecuted. Jason Tygther and Rasheem Grant allege they were subjected to illegal stops and searches, excessive force by the police, and wrongful i...
Tucker, Cory vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 803202/2021E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, March 9, 2021, ended April 14, 2022
$25,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 15, 2020, at 9:30 PM, Plaintiff Cory Tucker was near Marion Avenue and East 194th Street, Bronx, when he was approached and summarily stopped, searched, grabbed, assaulted, battered, and detained by Defendant Officers Kyle Flood, John Doe, John Roe, Detective Paul Zaino, and Detective Daniel Rivera. While in Defendant Officer's custody, Plaintiff was subjected to a strip search and assault of his head, neck, back, body, and limbs. Plaintiff was incarcerated for over 24 hours prior to release, and was then required to make numerous court appearances before the charges were terminated.